Hi,
I was told that the symbol fonts I have created with FCP 5.0 cannot be installed on an Apple Macintosh: The installation fails because they do not validate.
Since I am not familiar with the Apple platform, I used Google to find out: One of Apple’s new features in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is an “Advanced Font Validation”. My fonts passed 9 out of the 10 tests, but there was one error reported concerning the “Font Name Tables”. Unfortunately, I have no more information than that.
Some properties that can be set with FCP came to my mind. Here are my current settings:
- in “Platform Manager”: Macintosh Roman and Microsoft Symbol
- in “Naming”, for both Macintosh Roman/English and Microsoft Symbol/English - United Stated: everything is filled except “postscript name” and “include trademark”
- in “Naming”/“Advanced” everything except “preferred family (Win)”, “sample text”, “compatible full (Mac)”, “preferred subfamily (Win)” and “PostScript CID” is filled
Since I don’t have a Mac to test the changes that I make to my fonts, I want to be sure: What properties exactly do I have to set for Tiger compatibility?
Any hints appreciated.
Thank you in advance
FontFan
PS: Meanwhile (2005-08-16), the fonts have been reported to be working on Mac OS 10.3.6 “Panther”, but not on 10.4 “Tiger”, so it seems this is an issue with Tiger. Has anyone experienced similar problems with using fonts on a Mac?